'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective,coming-of-age characterisation'GUARDIAN'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future'SUNReturning to the universe of Revenger,award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates,faced down monsters and survived massacres . . .and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own,adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes,as they're about to discover . . .'A rollicking adventure yarn with action,abduction,fights,properly scary hazards,very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort'DAILY TELEGRAPH'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written'SFX
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9780575090651Number of pages: 432Weight: 300 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 32 mm
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Pirates in space,full of peril and high-jinks... This is a novel that's elegantly plotted,full of surprises and,as first time round,rip-roaring fun.Reynolds is easily one of the modern masters of science fiction... addictive,page-turning stuff.This is a story to break hearts and make you turn pages. It's great stuff; pick it up,you'll want to know what happens next.Much of the fun of these books comes from the construction of a far,far-future space-opera... the mapping of Age of Sail tropes onto space travel is just the start... Nevertheless,at the centre of this baroque masquerade party resides a sober consideration of what it might mean to go off adventuring,what it might cost.
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